Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS

This website gives an insight into the early days of mp3 development, its marketing and rapid development until today. It explains how mp3 transformed from a pioneering technology to a worldwide audio standard, and details the positive effects it had on Germany’s economy. The information within these pages focuses on Fraunhofer IIS’ contributions to mp3 – other institutes did their own research on adapted aural audio coding, and mp3 also includes some contributions by developers who were not part of the mp3 team at Fraunhofer IIS.